Laser Enrichment

"There's complacency in the system where most people are saying don't worry about being able to get enrichment services from Russia," he says. "We're smarter than that and I sort of say wait a minute, did you consider whether or not Vladimir Putin is smart enough to figure out that he could do some real damage by cutting us off?" The West would have to really build out a whole bunch of enrichment facilities if it lost access to Russian nuclear fuel stock but new technology called laser enrichment has yet to be commercialized.